Squint Publishes Book; Gives Lecture

Whichard Professor Dr. Kirstin Squint’s co-edited collection Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies was published March 4 by LSU Press. The book expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States—the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, the Everglades, and the Great Dismal Swamp—this evocative collection challenges fixed notions of place and foregrounds the ways in which ecosystems shape cultures and creations on both local and global scales.

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Squint also traveled to Western Carolina University where she delivered an invited lecture for the Cherokee Studies program, “Choctaw Writer LeAnne Howe and Native Southern Literature.”

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